[slackintosh-users] Re: qemu gcc and firefox

> urgent development arose:  firefox stopped working.  This happened 
> immediately after compiling qemu with the gcc-3 compiler.  So I used 
> removepkg to remove firefox, and I then used installpkg to put it back 
> (from the .tgz binaries in the 12.0 slackintosh patches), but I still 
> got the same problem of firefox immediately closing itself.  Just to see 
> if any browser would work, I used lynx to download opera and install it, 
> and both lynx and opera work. (So I know port 80 is open, etc.) 
> 
> So I think something in the installation of qemu has interfered with 
> firefox, but am unsure as to how to proceed.

i don't know if this is possible, but maybe the qemu install script
accidentally installed a broken binfmt handler, which somehow interferes with
the firefox components? You might check if there's any entry
in /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/ or if the binfmt_misc kernel module is loaded
(lsmod) and temporary disable it...

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